Here’s the intro presentation: Quantified Self Toronto 101 View more presentations from Sacha Chua and my sketchnotes from other people’s presentations (click for a larger version): Join the meetup at http://www.meetup.com/quantifiedself-toronto/ or check out past meetups at http://quantifiedself.ca![Continue Reading...]

Eric Boyd shared his progress on reducing mortality risk by gaining weight and changing his BMI. Michael Schwanzer updated us on what they’ve been learning about changing habits over at rehabit.me. Tate talked about this cortisol-analysis startup he’s working on. Ben showed us the HTML5 todo system he’s working on. I did a quick update [...][Continue Reading...]

Bits from the meetup: automated tracking of computer activity, CureTogether.com for aggregated health self-reporting of conditions and treatments, and the oddly popular desire for a statistical silver bullet that will crunch your data and tell you what’s potentially interesting about you, instead of you coming up with questions and designing proper experiments. This makes me [...][Continue Reading...]